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The accidental archaeologist: the unfortunate case of Antonio Filippello and the coin hoard of Castiglione (Catania, Sicily, 1818) Universiteit Gent
This paper describes a set of records from the State Archive of Palermo, that detail the experiences of Antonio Filippello, who, in 1818, unintentionally discovered some ancient coins during building renovations on his property in the small town of Castiglione (near Catania) and was unfairly arrested by local authorities. The records help to precisely reconstruct the historical event and to clarify significant aspects of Sicilian archaeology ...
An eighteenth-century Sicilian coin hoard from the Termini-Cerda railway construction site (Palermo, 1869) Universiteit Gent
This essay provides for the first time data on the discovery of a coin hoard found in Cerda (Palermo, Sicily) in 1869 at a railway construction site. The main aims of the paper are to contextualize this event in terms of the history of post-Unification Sicilian archaeology and to offer new information on contemporary bureaucratic procedures, as carried out by the Italian State and by local authorities in the case of casual discoveries. This ...
Le monete Universiteit Gent
This essay provides a thorough analysis and cataloguing of Roman, medieval and modern coins found at Calvatone-Bedriacum, a small “pagus” (‘town’) in the province of Cremona (Italy). The site has been excavated by the archaeologists of the University of Milan. All numismatic material comes from the excavation of the huge Domus of Labyrinth between 2011 and 2006. The paper aims to outline the coin circulation in Bedriacum and contextualise coins ...
Paolo Cataldi, a counterfeiter of ancient coins at Buccheri (Syracuse, 1818) : some archival records Universiteit Gent
My paper aims to reconstruct for the first time an interesting episode of the history of Sicilian archaeology, which archival records from Palermo disclose. In particular, it focuses on Paolo Cataldi’s activity as counterfeiter of ancient coins at Buccheri. In 1818 Bourbon authorities conducted an investigation on antiquarian dealing of antiquities, realising that some fake ancient coins were circulating among dealers and collectors. Finally, ...
Numismatic and archaeological collecting in northern Sicily during the first half of the nineteenth century Universiteit Gent
This research examines the archaeological protection system and antiquarian collecting in northern Sicily, in particular in the coastal strip from Palermo to Messina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Substantially, the most represented historical period is the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1814-1861). The strength of the research, which is relevant to the history of Sicilian coin collecting and archaeology, is a substantial set of ...
Lettera di Girolamo Bonanno Chiaramonte su una moneta dU+2019oro di Costantino IV (Caltagirone, 1745) Universiteit Gent
Heroic cults in Northern Sicily between numismatics and archaeology Universiteit Gent
This paper focuses on the coin iconography of Herakles, protagonist of a Sicilian mythological cycle. He is the most represented hero on Sicilian coins, issued by Greek cities in northern Sicily. In the modern age local antiquarian scholars associated the ruins of two ancient buildings in Alontion and Kephaloidion to the worship of Herakles and Iuppiter. The antiquarians used the numismatic evidence to interpret the archaeological evidences. ...
La fascia costiera di Tindari e Patti dallU+2019antichità agli inizi dellU+2019Ottocento Universiteit Gent
A letter of Michele Schiavo describing a coin of Didia Clara (Palermo, eighteenth century) Universiteit Gent
This article examines a letter of Michele Schiavo (1705–71) which describes a rare coin of Didia Clara (daughter of the Emperor Didius Julianus) he had recently acquired. The document, preserved at the Public Library (Biblioteca Comunale) of Palermo and now published for the first time, is worthy of study for several reasons. First of all, it is a significant direct account of Sicilian antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, in which Schiavo ...